In these strange hysterical times, "Global Warming" gets blamed for everything bad in our world, and carbon gets blamed for all global warming (even when it is getting colder). Both of these beliefs are wrong. There is no unusual global warming, and there is no evidence or sound theory to support the public panic about man's emissions of the harmless (in fact beneficial) plant food, carbon dioxide.

There is a growing disquiet about the many stupidities being done on the basis of flawed reasoning. If we do not pause and reflect where we are going, many people will be hurt by spiralling costs and shortages for all the necessities of life - food, fertiliser, energy, electricity, minerals, petrol, cement, steel. Just think for a moment which of these you believe we can do without?

Attached below is a bit of Climate History - there is nothing new about Climate Change - it occurs all the time.

This is a very mixed message concerning the car "Green Tax" in the UK, however this may be a common view point held by many of us. There seems to be a fine balance of what is acceptable and what is not when it comes to paying more tax to "save the world".

Source:Scotsman By Dani Garavelli

OUTSIDE my home on the south side of Glasgow stands my three-year-old 1.6-litre Vauxhall Zafira. To be honest it doesn't cut much of a dash situated as it is in a leafy suburb which boasts more than its fair share of Jaguars, Mercedes' and BMWs.

Muddy, full of sweet wrappers and packed to the gunwales with children, scooters and other paraphernalia, it does pretty much what it says on the tin: it's a modest, functional car just big enough to comfortably accommodate a family of five and a couple of friends.

Many nearby drives contain two or even three cars, but we only have the one – and we clock up just 7,000 miles a year. Taking into account the fact that all seven seats of our Zafira are filled up on a regular basis (leaving us, I have to say, virtually no boot space) I reckon we are as environmentally-friendly as it is possible to be in the circumstances. Unfortunately, the Government seems to think otherwise. Because under its new 'green' banded vehicle excise duty scheme, we – along with around nine million others – face a car tax hike of 24% over two years.

Stop the presses! The sun is behaving normally. So says NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "There have been some reports lately that Solar Minimum is lasting longer than it should. That's not true. The ongoing lull in sunspot number is well within historic norms for the solar cycle."

This report, that there's nothing to report, is newsworthy because of a growing buzz in lay and academic circles that something is wrong with the sun. Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots declared one recent press release. A careful look at the data, however, suggests otherwise.

Paul MacRae pulls out yet another excellent news blog within a few days, this time it's the Hadley Centre who get the finger pointed at them.

The Paul MacRae site is based on more than a year's research for a book examining the claims that humans are the main cause of global warming and that warming will be a disaster. His conclusion? Most of what we've been told about the causes and dangers of global warming is misleading, exaggerated, or plain wrong (including the claim that the planet is warming--it hasn't since 1998).

Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident.
– John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Britain’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research is in a spot of bother at the moment.

On the one hand, the Hadley Centre is a firm believer in the hypothesis that humans are the main cause of global warming and that we’re heading toward catastrophe. It even devotes several of its web pages to waving a nagging finger at those foolish enough or unprincipled enough to believe otherwise.

On the other hand, the Hadley Centre, as part of the British Meteorological Office and one of the world’s foremost climate-monitoring sites, is also churning out data showing that the planet isn’t warming at the moment, and hasn’t for the past 10 years or so. Clearly, increasing human carbon emissions aren’t causing the expected warming.

The WhattsUpWithThat site has throws up an interesting news blog in that four scientists have produced four scenarios, four more or less similar conclusions without actually saying it outright — the global warming trend is done, and a cooling trend is about to kick in. The implication: Future energy price response is likely to be significant.

Late last month, some leading climatologists and meteorologists met in New York at the Energy Business Watch Climate and Hurricane Forum. The theme of the forum strongly suggested that a period of global cooling is about emerge, though possible concerns for a political backlash kept it from being spelled out.

However, the message was loud and clear, a cyclical global warming trend may be coming to an end for a variety of reasons, and a new cooling cycle could impact the energy markets in a big way.

Words like “highly possible,” “likely” or “reasonably convincing” about what may soon occur were used frequently. Then there were other words like “mass pattern shift” and “wholesale change in anomalies” and “changes in global circulation.”

Two AmericanThinker articles in two days, this one by Christopher Chantrill is a gem and as you can see from the heading it needs no introduction.....

Why would anyone be a global warming denier? What's the point? You earn the scorn of Al Gore and maybe Dr. James Hansen, NASA's pre-eminent climate scientist will call for you to be put in jail. Of fossil fuel company CEOs, Hansen recently testified to Congress:

In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.

If Dr. Hansen turns out to be wrong about climate change should he be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors too? Steve McIntyre and his collaborators at climateaudit.org have already found one big error in Dr. Hansen's GISS global temperature data series. How many mistakes add up to a felony?

The PualMacrae site is based on more than a year's research for a book examining the claims that humans are the main cause of global warming and that warming will be a disaster. His conclusion? Most of what we've been told about the causes and dangers of global warming is misleading, exaggerated, or plain wrong (including the claim that the planet is warming--it hasn't since 1998).

The latest article on his site is as follows..

In proportion as religious sects exalt feeling above intellect, and believe themselves to be guided by direct inspiration rather than by a spontaneous exertion of their faculties — that is, in proportion as they are removed from rationalism — their sense of truthfulness is misty and confused.

– George Eliot, “Evangelical teaching: Dr. Cumming.”
After more than year’s intensive research for a book on the bizarre distortions that make up the global warming issue, I now wonder how anyone in the “consensus” climate scientist community sleeps at night. And yet, individually, I’m certain that 99 per cent of them are highly principled human beings.

If more climate scientists spoke out about what they really believe, here’s what I think the silent minority (majority?) might say:

Hello. I am a “consensus” climate scientist, and I must confess that I and many of my fellow climate scientists haven’t been entirely honest with the public over the last 20 years or so on the issue of global warming, what causes it, and what damage it is likely to cause. Therefore, I have decided to come clean and tell the public honestly what “consensus” climate science is really all about.

IN response to Gary Byrne (Letters, July 5), 31,000 scientists did indeed sign a petition stating that they did not believe that humans were causing global warming. This is more than 10 times the number of scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The petition was organised by Professor Arthur Robinson of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.

Mr Byrne is wrong to say the Earth is continuing to warm.

Data from such bodies as the World Meteorological Organisation show that there has been no increase in global temperatures since 1998.

In fact the world is colder that it was 20 years ago, undermining the notion that carbon dioxide is causing runaway global warming.

Those tendentious ads on TV about carbon footprints are part of the most relentless propaganda campaign in human history to promote an ideology that now seems to be based on very shaky foundations.

Another superb article from the AmericanThinker by J R Dunn, he give's the history and background to some of the failure's in the early energy programme that became a victory for the modern day Green issues.

U.S. energy policy -- to stretch the meaning of the term - is appalling. It has been thrown together piece by piece over the decades to create a system that is dysfunctional, over complex, and internally contradictory. It is a system that victimizes American citizens, cripples the U.S. economy, makes the government a laughingstock, and empowers our enemies worldwide. While it's conceivable that somebody could actually design a policy that would do worse, they'd really have to work at it.

The only group in American that sees energy policy achieving some of their goals are the ones who oversaw its implementation from the beginning: the environmentalist Greens. It's obvious that our energy policy was intended not for the benefit of the public, or industry, or government, but almost solely to fit the agenda and goals of the Green movement, and not even the public agenda and goals, but the core agenda rarely referred to except through euphemism.

As MPs press the British Government to show greater commitment on Climate Change scientists today wrote to Tim Yeo MP Chair of the House Of Commons Environment Audit Committee with official data evidence that in the last decade world temperatures have fallen while carbon dioxide has risen and called on him to "explain on what evidence you base your recommendations".

The letter from astrophysicist Piers Corbyn Director of WeatherAction long range forecasters, written after consultation with other scientists, arrives before MPs today.

Piers, whose long range forecast (5 months ahead) for rainfall deluges this July in Britain and Ireland are being impressively confirmed**, commented on the reasons for the letter:

"It's time for MPs to have a reality check. That is what this letter is about. The public have a right to know on what basis £billions are spent every year in their name. I urge people to write to their own MPs with these questions too.

» How much "Man Made" CO2 Is In The Earth's Atmosphere?
I think ALL of the CO2 in the Earth's Atmosphere is from man.
I'm not sure how much "Man Made" CO2 is in the Earth's Atmosphere.
There is .04% CO2 in the Earth's Atmosphere and of that "Man" has added an extra 4% (1 part in 62,500)